WIGHT, Orlando Williams, author, born in Centreville, Alleghany County, New York, 19 February, 1824; died in Detroit, Michigan, 19 October, 1888. He was educated at Westfield academy and Rochester collegiate institute, New York, engaged in literary work, and was afterward ordained to the Universalist ministry. He was settled in Newark, New Jersey, for three years, but in 1853 visited Europe, and afterward he engaged in literary work. Subsequently he studied medicine, receiving his degree at the Long Island college hospital in 1865, and practised in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, and then in Milwaukee. In 1874 he was appointed state geologist and surgeon-general of Wisconsin, and in 1878-'80 he was health commissioner of Milwaukee, also health officer of Detroit for several years. The degree of A. M. was conferred upon him by Yale in 1861. Dr. Wight has published" The Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton" (New York, 1858); " Life of Abelard and Heloise" (1853 ; enlarged as " Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise, 1S61) ; and has translated Victor Cousin's " History of Modern Philosophy," with Frederick W. Ricord (2 vols., 1852), and "Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good" (1854); "Pascal's Thoughts" (1859) ; Balzac's novels, in part (6 vols., 1860)" Henry Martin's "History of France," with Mary L. Booth (4 vols., 1863)" and "Maxims of Public Health" (New York, 1884). He also edited and revised "Standard French Classics " (14 vols., 185S-'60), and edited "The Household Library" (18 vols., 1859 et seq.). He left a book of travels entitled "A Winding Journey around the World" (Detroit, 1888).